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2 THE WEEKLY STAR. PUBLISHETD EVERY THURSDAY —by— CHAS. O. PEAVY. Douglas county official ojag an. BUBS€RH’ra«N HATES. 3?er Year, ia advance, 90cts. “ “ csa a credit, $1.15. OUR AGENTS. The following ate authorized to receive and receipt for-mbßcriptions to the Stab : L. 8. Fbvtherwon, Villa Rica, Ga., T. J. Bowen, Salt Springs, Ga., Tlios. AastaLL G» Lee ©ORfETT, ■Chapel ’Kli; Ga. Address ali-eommuwicsations to THE STAR, Douglasville, Ga. Entered at the Poatoffice at Douglasville, Ga., *• secoad-class matter. A GHREAT offer. FREE — TQ ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS I ' AR subscribers of the Star who make an advanee payment of one year will re- Jcive as a -premium -one year’s ‘ i-.bscrip tio-n to THE HOUSEHOLD BEACON, A handsome, 8-page, monthly household paper tlmt will become a welcome visit or in the home of every intelligent family. A PREACHEB LYNCHED. QUICK WORK BY A MOB OF 4OG ARMED MEN IN MISSOURI. I'arciMy Taken from Jn.ll and Hanged to a Tree for Wife Marder. Rev. George Graham, a revivalist well known In the West, has been forcibly taken from the jail at Springfield, Mo., where he was incarcerated for wife murder, and Particulars of the affair are given dispatches, as follows: A armed men surrounded the county tolM ’lllite™ began parleying with the sheriff fnMS” render of George E. Graham, the evangelEr* and wife murderer.. The sheriff would not comply with their demands, (but they soon battered ia the doors and secured the prisoner. At 2 o’clock the men, with Graham in their midst, started out of town and in Jess than an hour after the attack was made urn the jail the prisoner was hanging to a tree ,'in the city liniita. Graham went to his death coolly and died apparently without any struggle. The n»ob dispersed in all directions. A notice of warning to other evil-doers, #iig»ed “Citizens of Greene County, Me.,” was pinned to the body. The preliminary examination of Mrs. Mol loy and Cora Lee, the revivalists, charged jointly with George E. Graham with tho mur ter of Sarah, hii wife, has recently been con luded. Graham had previously made a eonfe.-Kiou In which he admitted tho murder of his wife, but alleged that he first wounded k. her a •cidentally in a s •uftie. and then kiU?J. her because be was afraid that sb« would i »>ro;.ecufo lu-ue raw Uie assault and for bigamy io marrying C;W» Leo. The .-'vleuoe sal j/pitt dat the examination ■ show*'l Shat Grahnid and Mi s. Molloy at.d Cora lah: lived togsttnei’for five ywirs. They J etmducted woras of revivals during that period, and ir. Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas > lufiila tl. 'usainis at cbnverU Mrs. Molloy n fin® farm hear Springfield, which tho Aave pnj? their n?y/L quarters. In his confession Graham I said that his wife, whom he had met li! raw Louis with their children, followed him to against his wish; that she then insisted dfi XSSamponying him to the ! farm, and that when he with her on tho road they had a scuffle, jl» which ■ he accidentally cut her in the Wfc. * a | i The State proved tijat on the night that Graham and his wife arrived nt Springtieh) j Cora Lee left the farm early in tho evening ' All a buggy; that Graham Mid t"'9 women, , oueVT WhlKlV was closely veiled, Ux>k refi esh- I meats at a restaurant hero, and that Mrs. j Graham did not die of knife wounds, but was killed by gttota front a revolver. It is held i that Cora Loo met the couple at the ; depot, that Mi's. Graham ha| been j coaxed to this place by her husband, and that she was murdered on tho highway , nt night by Graham and Cora, who theh threw her body into an old well on tho Mol- < toy farm. The next morning they drove , down to the dejxit and got the two children, who ba<l been there all night, in ignorance of the fate of their mother. - * ’*■ ■ ■ - CREMATED AiIVE. The Horrible Fate of Mix Nlerpia* Italian Laborers in Pcnnavlvanla. Thirty Italian lai Hirers in the employ of th< Erie Railroad Company have been occupying < one of the company's old construction shan ties al Mt. Alton, fifteen miles south of Brad ford, Penn. The building has been in disusi for some time, and the wooden underpinning was weak. Twenty men slej tin a little loti ami the remainder on tho first floor, which was elevated above the ground four feet. I run ng the night, a few day's since, ent of tlie ports on which the structure rested gave way, and at I a, m. the shanty wai j tarown to tho ground an I collapsed.' Tlx; j num wore precipitated into a heap, and those I who eeea|ied m tde their way out with great difficulty. In a few minutre th» wreck took tire from a lantern that had hung in one of the rooms, and the walk tieing largely com puted of tarr.xi paper, at ou -e bla.’.wi fiercely. The stomtaof too laborers who had escai»ed from the wreck an I the screams of others who were still penned in the blazing pile I ■reuwod the village. There being no fire department, nothing could bo done outaide of forming a b t ket brigade, whi.il was not of the dl,:bt<v,! Tho howling of the roasting mon grew fainter and fainter and m a short time the i lire hml sp«»nt Reolf. Rix charred corpses, which could be identified only bv biu of j clothing, were tab n out. Two others of the | num mittens] tierio ts injury from Mogrtruck by fading timbere. but it is believed thev will recover Tbs' deal iwu hsd sums ranging I from SllXlto A*' about their pers.ms, w hich they were alx mt to send to their families m Italy. Tb»' Italian® had l»eeu I'ing in tin / Erie’s box calk, tut . b the buildin > against the advice of tluw win hail pro mninred it unsafe I The name* irf the dead are: Andiew IV trela, tod- lew kntts, LXnidniro Colerea. Fap jasta Itumvsw, Frank Gnuo and Charles Tto- m ’uresi are Tony Dananro and Nicuk IX I A CBAKY »»n u» Pawtucket started out th* other day determined to hire ; every woman he met «u thostreet Hi* mind w still feeble, but he seems to ireve j more eenne about emne thing*. I; <mgh Ire w n<d ’W batidecme a* be w»» a I Tramps are overrunning Florida to sucljZi.n extent that the county Commis sio'ners have decided to anchor great fighters in the St. John’s river and cor ral the tramps there for ninety days each. A aurious instance of the changed con dition of affairs in the west is that buffa loes are bred in Kansas for sale, and calves bring S3O each, now, where twen ty years ago herds of thousand's of these cattle ranged wild over the prairies. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has mad 3 the remarkable discovery that, through a legislative or clerical ac cident, the Indian title to W,000,00€ acres of land in Dakota has not been ex tinguished, though not less than twenty thousand people have moved in and set tled the section. Tm million acres art a good deal of land—enough to make three states like Connecticut and have a nullion acres over. What wouldn’t the average boy give if his pa would only send him to the Fort Wrangel training school in Alaska? The newspaper of that place says that the boys of the school last year killed for the use of the institution 121 deer, 11 seals. 1 bear, about 150 wild geese, over 300 ducks, and numerous grouse, porcupines, marmots and snipe, and caught all the salmon, halibut, codfish, trout, herring, flounders, crabs and clams they needed. The Euphrates river, once a mighty stream, seems likely to disappear alto gether. For some years the river banks below Babylon have been giving way, so that the stream spread out into a marsh, until steamers could not pass, and only a narrow channel remained for the native boats. Now the passage is being filled up, and the prospect is that the towns on the banks will be ruined, and the famous river itself will be swallowed up by the desert. The Boston Journal recently told a col> respondent that the report that sytfTv’had fallen in the West when xvas 30 degrees error, assert ing that itj^4i ien “too cold to snow.” piffaeer Press denies the N ft M most emphatically, saying that in Minnesota, it does snow, and snows furiously, when the mercury is 30 degrees below zero. These, the editor adds, arc terrible storms for the people who are caught in them. The principal astronomical event of 1880 will bt the total eclipse of the sun on the 29th of August. The line of totality in this eclipse will cross the At lantic Ocean, traversing land in the West Indies just after sunrise and in Southern Africa towards sunset. On the coast of Benguela tire total phase lasts nearly five minutes, and at Grenada, in the West Indies, the duration will be nearly four minutes. Three comets of known peri od are expected to return during the year. Gibers’ comet, with a period of seventy-one and a half years, will proba bly Teach Perihelion near the close of the ! A small comet discovfijfi Pons j inl81?f-4nd rediscovered by Winneeke I in 1858, is du? ip 1886, as is also jhe one first seen by Temple and ligaTi? observed by Swift in 1880. The period eat'h of these two comets is' aboutlfivc and a naif yearal u " Ljgutcflflut Greely ‘pathetic ap peal in his recently published book sot the survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition. Some of them have not been fully paid for their Arctic service; not one of has been promoted in the army; one lies in a city Tiospital the re- | cipegtbf private charitv, and one and afi aFe neglected and forgotten after llieii i faithful discharge of the government service required of them in the fai North. The Lieutenant remarks that Brainard, who was Lockwood’s associate in making the furthest North, is still a sergeant in the United States Army, , whereas his gallant service would have earned him a commission in any other service in the world. The New York Tribune thinks that the fact that these men were sent to Lady Franklin Bay by the United States government and were exposed to the most agonizing suffering in the interest of science fairly entitles them to generous consideration. The Car-DiulJer reproduces the half- ; page photograph of a stranger sight than Baron Munchausen ever saw. A train was stalled in a snow-bank. An engine with a small snow-plow started out from the station to aid the incoming train. Supposing the stalled train to be thr?e miles out instead of two, the engine ; with the plow ran into the stalled en- I gine in n snow-bank and actually took ’ the incoming locomotive entirely up on j its entire length. The smokestack, bell, | sand-chest, and cab wire willed off the i lower machine, but the upper one lost ' only its smokestack. The two rear drive wheels of the upper locomotive sit over the pl act- of the lower smokestack, and the forward trucks above are in the place 1 of the lower cab. There is a tilt of per haj« ten degrees to the right in the up- ! per locomotix e. Both engines were now I ia a dangerous place, so the plucky i engineers plugged the broken pi of ! the under engine and discovered that it still could be worked. In this condition, with a full-sired locomotive on its back, the under engine ws» run hack twe | miies W a sidetrack and switched. An instance of the intimate relation ship between a horse and its keeper is afforded, says the New York Times, in the remarkable history of the horse Epaulet, for which Mr. Bonner offe r $20,000 in vain. On its first apper nce in the ring it was unnoticed and t] lc . first two Feats. The regular r j^ ver gn( j trainer of the horse, a .^ olored inan? begged earnestly to be to take the horse and drive r eraa i u( ier of the race, and his reqU est was granted, at moment. The horse neighed pleasure when his well known driver mounted the sulky and showed bis satisfaction by putting forth all his efforts and winning the race, and several others afterward the same season, with ease. His record stood at 2:19, 2:20 1-4, 2:20 1-4, in three straight heats, ■which for a 4-year-old was so gratifying to Mr. Bonner that hq at once offered the large price named for him. With any other driver the horse sulked and had no enthusiasm. The affection which exists between all kinds of animals and their kind and sympathetic keepers is a trait which should never be ignored. Considerable attention has been lately directed to the commercial and indus trial value, at least prospectively, of the tupelo gum and willow oak timbers of Mississippi. After various and thorough tests the first named has been pronounced almost as soft and light as cork, and the whitest timber in the valley. It is ex tremely light, can not be split, while at the same time it is very tough, tenacious, and will bear a heavy strain, its various qualities rendering it specially valuable for -buckets, pitchers, trays, ox-yokes, and almost all kinds of water vessels, as well as for many other purposes. The water or willow oak is said to be second only to the live oak, is almost as hard when seasoned as is the latfoy Lhd for the rim and wheels is alleged while for ship-build ing it xvill almost equal the live oak in its firmness and durability. Tests have been made of the crushing capacity of this wood, and also of its transverse strength, with remarkably favorable results, the published data showing that it is one third stronger than any white, red, or black oak, and only one-eighteenth less than live oak. “The comedies of Washington society arc more funny than those that appear upon the stages of its theatres,” writes the correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. “Throughout part of the city, just now, the sublime is tramping upon the heels of the ridiculous, aftd tho high and low, the rich and the p<W, tho patricians and the apostles of the.qragged edge bump up against each other, bow and apologize, , and move->- mixed up, indescribable thron looker-on in Washington the fuiniest'wf things are those behind the scenes. Ybu go to a reception and as the gayly throng flits by you, you think of .the skele tons which each one has in Ids closet. That lady dressed so nicely and wearing such elegant stuffs, like wi qot buys her cloth*!, ors instalments aiid does: ilGiget them paid for before jjicy worn out • ..That great man’s up fa questionable scandals befgre she was ma*- ried, |he man you meet may have bought Ids wealth andgooct 'clothe? FF a | long career of lobbying. Washington 1 society contains more good and bad than you will find anywhere in the country, and the danger of it is the vices arc all so fair, and they never walk the streets but in the clothes of virtue.” t Origin of the Word Texas. In a recent article published in the North American Retictr, Governor Ire land, of Texas, asserts that the word ! Texas means “welcome;” and that on the landing of the first white men on ' the coast of Texas, the Indians greeted I them with the exclamation of “Texas P’ ; or Vwelcome.” This theory,according to a correspond ent in the Texas Fortcoerf# is not cor- | reet. In the roicient Spanish archives, stored away in the land office at Austin, it appears that certain lands were situ- ' ated “tn el pais de his Tejas,” or in the . country of the Texas, or Tejas Indians, | x and j being pninounceil alike. It is well known that the Texas or ! Tejas Indians were a tribe or Indians liv ing in the valley of the Rio Grande, who • were exterminated or driven off by 'a • more sat.igi’ tribe. The word Texas dr Tejas is the root of the names of all the Indian tribes in Texas and Mexico. *The prefix indicated the locality of the tribe, i The As-Tejas, nr Aztecs, dwelt on high ! lands of Anahuac. The Tol-Tejas or Toltecs, lived as far south as Yucatan. The Huas-Tejas lived on the Gulf coast, ■ between Matamoras and Vera’ Cruz, and ' the Tol Tejas were located in the state of Coaliuela.— T&ras Sir'tings ' Not the Slightest Consequence. Litewaite (profusely)—“My dear Miss Olivette, ydu must excuse me. Passed ■ you on the street— baw Jove!—forgot to i bow —actually didn't see you I” I < Miss Olivette (affably)—“l beg you ' won’t distress yourself. It is not the slightest ’consequence." Litewaite (still in a flutter)*—“Ah, yes, but I—-you know—l am—" i Miss Olivette (more affably)—‘‘Not the i slightest consequence." Philadelphia | j CaiL I ’ NEWS IN GENERAL. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. EASTERN ANB MIDDLE STATES. The* Chamber of Commerce of New York City has just held a meeting and adopted resolutions endorsing arbitration as the only means of settling the prevailing war between capital and labor, and condemning all at tempts by strikers to interfere with or coerce those taking their places. The New York Grand Jury has indicted forty-seven membei-s of the Tailors’ Union for boycotting a firm of tailors who refused to accede to the Union’s demands. A Bostox supplier of builders’ material states that $17,000,000 of capital about to be invested for building purposes in that city and vicinity has been withdrawn on account of the strikgs. A pool of the glassware manufacturers ot this country has been arranged, and hereaf ter the p - ice of the smallest piece of glass ware sold will be fixe l by the association which controls forty-thne furnaces with a daily output of about 1,000 tons of glass ware. A large meeting of Grand Army mem bers and others was held in the Assembly Chamber at Albany, N. Y., on the 29th, to express disapproval of the reappearance of Mr. Jefferson Davis “as an attempt to revive the war feelings of the past.’ 1 Speaker Husted presided, and resolutions of condem nation were passed. General Henry A. Barnum and others made speeches denounc ing the addresses of Mr. Davis on the 2Sth at Montgomery, Ala. Five of the striking New York horse-car drivers have been arrested on the charge of rioting. SOUTH ANO IVEST. The Richmond (Va.) local election, just held, was a struggle between the Prohibition ists and anti-Prohibitionists. The latter, or “wet ticket,” won by a large majority over the “dry ticket.” The colored vote was almost unanimous for anti-Prohibition. Hailstones big as hen eggs fell during a tornado at Killeen, Texas. Two houses were destr, yed and a child fatally hurt. A train on the Missouri Pacific railroad was ditched re ->u VVyandotte, Kansas, the, otho’- •_ £2* spikes were pulled out of the ,ti:s and angle-plates taken off the rails. The fireman and brakeman were instantly killed, and engineer severely injured. Vice-Presi dent Hoxie offered a reward of $2,500 for the arrest and con victim of the wreckers. In Las Vegas, N. M., the overflowing of the Rio Gallonas from heavy rains has destroyed many buildings, including the postomce, railroad buildings and extensive oil and lumber works. . “Memorial Day” was celebrated this year with unusual ceremonies at Montgom ery, Ala., orations being delivered by Jeffer son Davis. General Gordon and other promi nent ex-Confederates. The corner-stone of a soldiers' monument was laid. From Mont gomery Messrs. Davis and Gordon went to Atlanta and took part in the unveiling of a statue to the late Senator Benjamin Hill. A number of large Milwaukee (Wis.) fur niture factories have closed because the em ployes demanded that the hours of labor be reduced to eight a day, at the old wages. The Secretary of the Illinois State Board I of Health says the danger from Asiatic cholera this year is greater than ever. . 9 o .Y NTY t Z KEASURER Hollingsworth is m jail at Vincennes, Ind., for embezzling about Sse.COO. ° just issued shows the Southern States have 117 savings banks, with a capital of $11(728,000 and more than $109,000,000 in AjfLARGE band of armed Mexican? the I otlw- nifrht raided the of Collins, Texas, iWiSieki it for a number of hours while they ■ searched for Deputy Shoriff P. M. Coy, who recently captured Martinez and Car two noted Mexican outlaws, who were mattered while in the constable's custody. Two brothers name 1 Owens and the wife and child of a ranchman have been killed in county, Arizona, by marauding i ■Alany coal miners in the vicinity of Elk Garden, W. Va., have lieen without work for fisore than a year, and hundreds of families are in a starving condition. An appeal for help has been issued. A BAKp of forty Indians attacked two ranches near Pantano, Arizona, and killed pight persona. WASHINGTON. A REORGANIZATIOIi of the Patent office is in contemplation. The President has sent the following nom- i inations to the Senate: To be Consuls of the ' United States—Andrew F. Fay, of Illinois, at : Stettin, and Thomas C. Jones, of Kentucky, at 1 Funchal. Madeira; Reuben B. Pleasanta, to ; be Marshal of the United States for the f Eastern District of Louisiana; Patrick O’Mai- ! lev, to be Receiver of Public Moneys | Menossha, Wis. A number of presidential postmasters and army officers were r/tsd'nomi* THS S&iate Committed Uh Public fcthds has unanimously vofou to report adrvYseiy upon tho nominatin' of R. S. Itoredutto ba Surveyor-General of Utah. of Bo t in, Prudent of the Bell Telephone Company, wAs examined on the “j?th by the House Committee of investi- ■ gation into telephone matters. Senator Shersan Selivercd an address * at the Metropolitan M. E. Caurch, Washing- I ton, on the 27th, m c jnimemnratioa of Gen- ; eral Grant's sixty-fourth birthday. ADDmqxAL 'dominations by the Presi (tout: R. H. Jone*, of New Mextoo, to be • Consul of th? United States at Chihuahua; i Samuel H. Keedy. of West Virginia, to be Consul of tha Unitel States at Rheims; E. j H. Bryan, of California, to be Consul of the ■ United States at Lyons. Chang Yen Hoon the new Chinese Minister, has presented his credentials to the ! Prerident. Mu Whitelaw Ried testified before the Home Pan Ete -U i- Ts'epb.one Committee of > Investigation on the 29th concerning the manner in which the newsixipers obtained I th 'ir information of the facts in the case. The Senate Committee on Agriculture has ve . n f 1 long bearing to representatives of ! the dairy interests who ask for tho passage of Senator Miller’s bill for the relief of the fa U n . er ' i from th? unfair and oppressive com- i petition of imitation butter manufacturers. FOREIGN. re P or f confirmed that the Amir of Xu A* l Turkey, has massacred n lm'X»^ U^ >peai V j? his ca P :ta l< also the JX io* ! ‘“ »'«‘ tiCc eipeiition sJS bTU f Auari *- *““ bee “ de ‘ a£rS)n »n Europe. Greece hL l be powers and disbafided tht reserve force that she had been massing Turkey r ° Ut er ' n of war with VVhxixsox’s mills a t Basston, England together with many adjoining houses, have been destroyed by fire. - fouldn’t Say "Boo.” Her Little Brother (holding up the cat's—“ Say ‘Boo,’ Mr. Smith." Mr. Smith—“ What for, Bobby?’’ Her little Brother—“l want to know if you can. Sister says you can t fry ‘Boo to a cat’ MERRY MARRIAGE BELLS. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TO LEAD MISS FOLSOM TO THE ALTAR. Confirmation of the Report of the Marriage by an Uncle of the Bride-Elect. A Boston dispatch says: Mr. H. F. Har : non, a well-known flour merchant of this sity, is a maternal uncle of Miss Frankie Folsom, who is believed to be the bride-elect jf President Cleveland. A correspondent asked him if there is any doubt that President Cleveland is going to marry Miss Folsom. “Frankly speaking,” said he, “there is none. It was not our intention to announce the engagement until some time before the wedding, but unfortunately it was made pub i L* c . by 8> breach of confidence on the part of ; friends in Buffalo. I have just been writing a letter to Miss Frankie,” he added. “It is now nearly time for her to be preparing to return home. “Do you suppose she has heard of the I rumurj in circulation on this side the At- I lantic?” “I have no doubt she has learned some thing. I was engaged in w riting her, as you entered, that the cat was out of the bag, and giving her a little of the gossip she may ex pect to hear on returning home. We fre quently receive letters from her about the trip. She writes often and her letters are particularly bright. She has a brilliant, de scriptive style and is an enthusiastic ob server. The rumor that the expenses of her : European trip were paid by Mr. Cleveland has no foundation in truth, and I do not see how it ever originated. “It was Miss Folsom’s intention to an nounce the engagement in due time before the wedding, but to her, as well as the entire family, the premature statements concerning it are a great surprise. As I have said, there were but a few let into the secret. At last ac counts Miss Folsom was enjoying the best of health. She enjoyed the visit to Italy very much, the only drawback being her mother's illness in Genoa, where she was taken down with a fever. Miss Folsom'sacauaintance with President Cleveland forms a romantic story. “Frankie at a very early age gave promise of great beauty. She was loved by every one who knew her. She was frank in manner, warm hearted and very love ly. When scarcely knee high she was particu’arly friendly to ‘Uncle Cleve,’ as she called him, and in after years held him as one of her dearest friends and advisers. Then came her father’s death with its attendant changes. 1 have no doubt if he had lived he w’ould have been much gratified at the mar riage.” “When did President Cleveland commence his matrimonial attentions?” was asked. “I can scarcely an Gver that;” was the re ply. “He was very friendly disposed toward Miss Folsom from the time she was a child; but about three years ago his attentions com nienced to assume a more serious aspect. Al though very reserved in manner, it was evi dent ne now cared far more for the woman than he had in former years for the child. When Miss Folsom aud her mother visited the White House last*year there was consid erable talk about a possible engagement, but not until the announcement of the marriage was recently made was any further report in circulation. I think I may safely say you can travel a good many miles and see a great many people before you will find a young lady of greater beauty and accomplishments than Miss Folsom. I have no doubt it will be very embarrassing for her to know of the thousaud rumors that are circulated about her, especially if she happens to see any of the newspaper cute that have been printed ever her name.” PERSOHiL MEHTIOM. ■ Mr. Parnell has found time, somehow, j to write a novel, entitled, “Lady Drusilla.’’ | Congressman Wm. D. t Kelley, the “Father of the House.”is s?veuty-tw<j years old. ( Mr. Froude, the Engliih historian, has declared against Gladstone's Home Rule policy. Ex-Queen Isabella still chorishev the hope that she wi 1 one day be restored to the throne of Spain. It is now said that Senator Hawley is the most rapid speiker in Congres:. This is tho statement o" a stonoj’ apher. . The duke ot' Sannaugb'l IS said to be the only member of the royal family who really r^.b? m g for Ireland. Commodo*re W alker will bo Acting Sec the. So2retai . y ney c. absence xfcni n ashington uese MmlSteF, hfSin his suit thirtpafne peo ple, and not one of them a fetairib' Henry M Stantex, the has re covered his. h ?alth, and is j<_3 w in Roine . Ho is said to be anxious return to the Congo. According to Randolph Churchill the chances of the Gladstone Land bill pass ing the HousQ Commons are abo.it four to five. ... GeXßral Dacres, of ths British Royal Ariihery, who has be n iu tho service for hrly seventy years, his been made a field ’marshal. Edward Everett Hale deprecates the use of the word “ Knight” in mo iern Ameri caqgjrganizations, as the term is a relin of Feudalism. The widow of General J, F. B. Stuart, the commader of the famous Virgin a cavalry, is running a prosperous female seminary at Staunton, Va. Captair Boycott, from who-e name is derived the word “boycotting, ’’ has finally sold his property in Ireland ana has removed his family to England. Rev. Sam. Jones, tha Southern revivalist, has a tour laid out wbi h runs through Oc tober, and takes him to Maryland, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Missouri, Ohio and Canada. Frederick and William H. Bailey, prominent members of th? Knights of Labor, are foreign-born citizens. Turner comes from Somersetshire and Bailey from Greenwich. England. Sjw a to.- D >lph, of Oregon,is regarded by the ladies th» han Isomest man in the Senate. He is tall aud broad-shouldered, speaks with a rich, deep bass voice and has a magnitiecat full beard, which falls to the m d tie of his waitcoat He has a striking face and a ma jestic bearing, both of which attract atten tion. FIGHTING MOONSHINERS. Attackin< * Marshal—Two Men Killed and Four .Mortally Wounded. A dispatch from Manchester, Tenn., gives details of a bloody tragedy enacted there shortly after midnight the other morning, in which U uited States Deputy Marshal Webb Pardon, and a moonshiner named Clark were killed and three other moonshiners fatally wounded. Purdon had accompanied Deputy Marshal Hughe? on a raid on the illicit distilleries of Grundy county, Tenn., and captured and de stroyed several stills. Between 12 and 1 o’clock in tha morning fifteen moonshiners rode into Manchester and determined to have Purdon’s life. Seven broke into his house and the balance surrounded it Pardon met them as they entered with a cocked revolver, and a terrible battle then ensued. Two moon shiners fell to the floor mortally wounded and the gang retreated, but they succeeded in family wounding Purdon. I’i-abled as be was, Purd n discharged his doubled barrelled shotgun into the retrea’ing gang and two more fell mortally wounded. I union then fell dead bes.de th? body of one of hi- victims. The gang earned off"three of their wounded companions. A large puesse *as &eut in uursuit of them. BEN HILL’S MONUMENT. ITS UNVEILING IN ATLANTA ON THE FIRST OF MAY. Fifty Thousand Enthnsiastlc People and Several Eloquent Speeches. A‘. no period in her previous history has Atlanta had wit iin her borders su :h a host,- From every s ction of the state, from Florida, A’abama, Missimippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolini aid South Carolina;, from a score of other states, including even those of the far north, the people cams to do to the lamented Hill and to Jefferson Davis. Mr. Davis’ arrival caused great excitement, and the streets along which his carriage passed were strewn with flowers. at the statue. Very early in the morning the crowd became enormous. It was with difficulty that onb could pass along the street, while a crowd im penetrably dense pressed about the ropei that were arranged across tin several streets to keep the crowd away from the statu'. The platform presented a gay appearance. Fags innumerable fluttered in the breeze while a gaily decorated canopy as a shelter for the speakers proved quite an ornament. Jus: about eleven o’clock successions of deafening shouts proclaimed the approach of the procession. Mr. H. W. Grady, advancing to the centerof the speakers’ stand, eaid : “Fnendq, and fellow citizens: We have met here to-d»y to honor the memory of a great man. To perpetuate his virtues in «ur hearty and fix his manly beauty in enduring msrblq This vast arsemblage, inspiring in its numbeii and in the ardor ot its sympathies unequalled by any that ever stood on Georgia’s soil, hon ors itself, no less than him. in gathering at the base of this statue. Callous must be the heart that is not tnnoUed by the touch of thia hour’s inspiration. Sluggish the soul that does not kinole with new aspirations as the morning sun catches the gleam of this marble, and this mute interpretation of a great life is given to the morning air. And if in the mercy of God that great soul, enthroned beyond the skies, is per mitted to look upon this thrilling scene, and - read the hearts of this loving multitude in the swift revelation of that one g ance, in that one chapter of fa - hornless love, it would find rec ompense for the crosses and trials of an ardu ous lifo and the agonies and sufferings qf an. heroic death. In behalf of the committee, I ask your silent 1 and earnest attention while General C ement A. Evans, beloved iriend and pastor of our la mented dead, invokes the bles ingof Almighty God on this scene, this people apd these cere monies.” , . A.ftl? a touching prayer by General Evani, Dr. 11. Spalding, president of the Hill M nu ment Association, was introduced aud made an eloquent tpeech. At its conclusion he sad: “A id uow. sir, permit me, in behalf of the asicciation which I hive th? honor to repre sent, to present to the state, through you, her chief magistrate, this statue of one who not less signally illustrated the honor of Georgia than her most disiinguished sons from Ogle thorpe, the founder of the commonwealth, to Toombs, the dead Mirabean of the south.” At a signal from Dr. Spalding, Captain J. F. Burke removed the veil and the statue of Hill was revealed to the great crowd. A shout of applause went up. Tiiis speech was ably responded to bv Gov. A, H. McDaniel, of Georgia, and then lion. J. C. C. Back, the chp-en orator of the occasion, was introduced an d delivers xl a telling oration in honor of the departed Hill. Then amid tha most srapendous cheers Mr, guj'i V’ ed 6 e tho Pbfttom and spoke as follows: Ladies and Gziitleman : You Lave been, I believe, general apprised that no address was ' to bo expected of me. I came bee to •e’.-mtly' and reverently witness 'tW* trancing <f this statue of my friend. I came as one whb wanted to show his r. specs for a man whp in victori or defeat was ever the same—brave, couragebhS and true. If I were asked from Georgia’s his- S tory to name three mtn who were fair tvpos of ’ Georgians, I would take Oglethorpe the‘benev olent, Troup the danntltss and Hill the faith- , ful. [Great applause.] It is known to your generally, it has been told to you to-dav what part he took iii the s’ruggle which hasjtx'st HK& ILl* 2 vere ' spited of me. and I felt able io speak, I properly supplcm mt thft gTent orations to which yon have listened. There is nothing to be r D complete. But there is somgHttog i m ay gay of my dead friend. If he the last to engage in the wat between the states, he was the last to give it up. If he did not precipitate the controversy be stood by the wreck of our fortunes, and it was his voice that was ra : .se«4 loudest and rang clearest for Georgia to assert her sovereign'y. When, un der the power of the conquering enemy—for they were still such—when paralyzed by defeat, and poverty our people seemed to shrink back, hopeless of the future and despondent of the past, he wrote those notes on the situation that first kindled the fires of hope in Georgia and elsewhere. His voice rang out and called the people to remember that their cause was not lost; it was the eternal cause of truth and justice, and he invoked Georgians to,renew the struggle in such form tts has cd to the inde pendence you now enjoy. But I dare not speak of Hi’ 1 psrsonally. From’t he beginning to the end of the controversy he w»s one on whose shoulder I could place my hand and feel tha*. its foundation was as firm as marble. He had nothing to ask, but he had much to give, and when I was tne last from the south who could excite any expectation of benefit, it was Hill whose voice rose triumphant in the senate and mashed the ingenious yankee down. [Great cheering.] My friends, ours is the clay of peace. The friend whose memory we have met u> honor taught ns the lesson of peace as well as resistance. He taught us that it WAi— through peaceful methods we were to regain our rights. We have trodden the thorny path and passed over the worst part of the road. Let us still remember fealty to every promise we have given, Mit still let us love Georgia and her rights, and may her rights of freedom and independence, such as your fathers gave you, be yours and your children’s forever. As Mr. Davis cone tided he was led back to bis seat by Dr. Spalding, while the vast sea of people sent up cheer after cheer. MISS DAVIS INTBODCCED. While the cheers that followed the speech of Mr. Davis were still ringing loudly. Mr. Grady and Dr. Spalding approached Miss Davis aud led her forward before the great crowd. The wildest enthmnasra. prevailed. Hats ficw in the air and the cheering was like thunder. Mi-ts Davis smiled and bowed. Dr. Spalding said: “It is my pleasure to introduce to you the daughter of the confederacy, the daughter of President Davis.” Again the crowd cheered, and after bowing gracefully several times, Miss Davis led back to her chair. The ceremonsee were concluded with prayar tv Dr. Bsrnett ‘From the statue Mr. Davis went to Sirs. H H’s and rested quietly during the afternoon. The crowd was sometime in dispersing. The exercises lasted a shade over two hours. The following morning (Sunday) the special train gaily decorated with the national colors, bore Mr. Davis to Savannah. Being either way up in the attic of ecstacy, or way down in the cellar of despair, is bad policy. Any fool can become comparatively happy in life if he will take a position on tne fence and stick to it I wn.i.l>et my last dollar on tenacity. It is a legitimate persecution. It ril! even make Canada thiatka pine for death■ as a reieaae.